Nitya Labh is the current Schwarzman Academy Fellow at Chatham House’s International Security Programme. Her research focuses on maritime disputes and conflict management at sea. She is also a consultant for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and a Visiting Fellow at the College of William & Mary’s Global Research Institute. Nitya was a 2024 – 2025 Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and 2022 – 2023 James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.